WSOP 2012: Four Team Pros carry PokerStars flag into Day 5

If fate has designs on stopping Vanessa Selbst's run for a WSOP championship bracelet, it's not yet figured out a plan that works. After four days of play, Selbst is one of the top chip stacks as the remaining 5% of the field fights for the final table. She, Jan Heitmann, Marcel Luske, and Daniel Negreanu, all popular horses in the PokerStars stable, are all in the top 282 players headed to Day 5.

As we've noted more than a couple of times over the last week, Selbst was the only member of Team Pro to win a gold bracelet during this year's World Series. What's more, the $446,605 that she banked made her the winningest Team Pro this summer. So it comes as a surprise to exactly no one that she is leading the charge. She is Vanessa Selbst, and winning is what she does.

With the celebration of the money came a benediction for a small crew of Team Pros who made it to the cash, but couldn't make it to the end of the day. Booking their trips home tonight are Jason Mercier (659th place, $19,227), The Rousso House's Liv Boeree (631st place, $19,227), and Salvatore Bonavena (474th place, $24,808). Congratulations to all of them, as well as PokerStars Main Event Passport winners Zhi Pan and Fabrice Bachellez who both finished in the money today.